Michael Nyqvist

Primarily known to American audiences for playing the plucky investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the film adaptations of author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy" crime novels, Michael Nyqv...
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Christian Camargo, the writer, director and star of new movie Days And Nights, used his family connections to stock the film with all-stars. The Twilight star is married to British thespian Mark Rylance's daughter Juliet, who produced the film with her Tony Award-winning father, and he was thrilled by the names they brought on board.
He tells WENN, "A little nepotism doesn't hurt! It started with a little bit of nepotism, a little bit of friends, and sort of snowballed from there."
But Camargo insists many of the stars who signed up for the film were friends of his that he persuaded to join the cast based on his script: "I worked with Katie (Holmes) before in the play All My Sons - it was her Broadway debut! I was so impressed with what she was capable of doing and her abilities, and felt they were sort of undervalued and underused, so I was really excited to work with her again because she's really good.
"And it was my first film so I needed to really rely on some friends who would be supportive, but, in addition to that, I worked my butt off on this script and I sort of convinced people that it's something that is not done; to have an ensemble movie is just not done very often, so they jumped at the chance to spend 26 days in, like, a theatre camp and just explore."
As well as Holmes, the film also features his wife and father-in-law, Allison Janney, Ben Whishaw, Jean Reno, William Hurt, Cherry Jones and Michael Nyqvist.

Publishers in Sweden have commissioned a follow-up book to continue Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy. The novelist's books became huge international best-sellers and were translated for the big screen in a popular Swedish film series starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist, as well as a Hollywood movie with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
Larsson died in 2004 before his books were published, and a fourth novel in the series, which he was working on at the time of his passing, has yet to be completed due to an ongoing dispute amongst his heirs.
However, bosses at Norstedts Forlag, the Swedish company which originally published Larsson's trilogy, have now confirmed they are moving forward with plans for a new installment.
They have hired journalist/author David Lagercrantz to write a fourth book in the series, which will continue the exploits of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.
The novel is scheduled to be published in August, 2015.

Revenge actress Emily Vancamp has become the latest star to appeal for fan donations to get her new movie off the ground. The blonde beauty has agreed to appear in a small, independent film called The Girl in the Book along with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Michael Nyqvist, but producers are struggling to raise enough cash to shoot the movie.
They need $65,000 (£41,935) to complete their budget, so an appeal has been launched on crowd sourcing website Kickstarter.com, and VanCamp is urging her fans to back the project.
In a post on her Twitter.com page, she posts a link to the campaign and writes, "So excited to be a part of this film! Check this out..."
A message on the fundraising page adds, "We've raised our entire shooting budget, earning us a green light... The cast and crew are all underway, the locations have been locked down, we're ready to go! If you contribute to this project, you can count on seeing it finished!...
"Due to actor availability issues, we had a small window to bring this film into production. While we've raised enough money to get us through principal photography, we're still in need of $65,000 to cover all remaining expenses."
Other stars who have used the website to successfully fund their projects include actor Zach Braff, who raised a massive $3.1 million (£2 million) in donations to make a sequel to his cult film Garden State, while TV series Veronica Mars is heading to the big screen in a fan-funded film.

Disconnect is the Crash of the Internet age. Like the Best Picture-winner the stories are somewhat interconnected. It also takes itself very, very seriously. Although it has some salient points about how the Internet has affected our relationships, Disconnect comes off more like a sort of 21st century Reefer Madness about technology.
The phrase "concern-trolling" comes to mind. One of its many definitions is when someone appears to empathize with a troubling situation, but that concern is really condescending or, worse yet, barely masked schadenfreude and derision. Although I don't actually think that writer Andrew Stern and director Henry-Alex Rubin (Murderball) are enjoying the paces they put these characters through, the overall effect is one of insincerity.
Although the Internet can be a hazardous place for people of all ages, these characters' stories come across as Lifetime movie fodder. The kid who's humiliated via Facebook by two male peers isn't just withdrawn, he pouts at the world from beneath the most impressive bangs this side of Thrasher Magazine. One of his bullies is, of course, bullied himself by his resentful dad, a former cop who had to become a PI to support them after his wife died. In another subplot, a hot teen makes money getting his kit off for strangers with webcams and lives in a sort of flophouse owned by the sleazy pseudo-pimp who runs the cam site. When a journalist sniffs out this webcam ring as a great story, the line between professional and personal get blurry. For a grieving mother and wife, the succor of an online support group inadvertently gets her sucked into a phishing scam that almost ruins her and her husband's lives.
Maybe if Disconnect focused on just one of these stories, or even two interconnected ones, it wouldn't come off so overwhelmingly maudlin. Some of the concerns are terribly dated or simply ludicrous; I can't get over the fact that the term "sexcam" is used, as well as the weirdly hysterical idea of a sweatshop of possibly underage teens lured into the world of web-camming with a hot meal and a place to crash. The movie can be effective in parts, though. The Facebook bullying plotline is painfully relevant, even though it's played for high melodrama. It gives us all a disturbing look at how easy social media has made bullying, and how hard it is to escape it.
Disconnect gives some underused actors a chance to gnaw some scenery. Jason Bateman's role of the grieving and angry dad allows him to explore his darker, more sensitive side — some of his scenes are the most affecting. Andrea Riseborough is a wonderful chameleon who dons sensible suits and French-tipped manicures for her performance as a news anchor hoping to bring her career to the next level. Alexander Skarsgard is oddly effective as an emotionally stunted husband, even though it's hard to take him really seriously as an office drone. The rest of the cast — Max Thieriot, Paula Patton, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, and Colin Ford — are decent enough, given what they have to work with. Fashion designer Mark Jacobs, who plays Harvey the webcam pimp, is an amazing bit of stunt casting, though he shouldn't quit his day job.
Disconnect is oddly dark and murky, but luckily cinematographer Ken Seng left his Project X shaky handheld style at home. Max Richter is an incredible composer, but in conjunction with the overripe dramatics onscreen, it all becomes a bit much. We get it, people are disconnected from each other, their feelings, and their sexuality, but isn't there some room for happiness and joy that isn't tinged with pain amid all this tragedy?
2/5
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You'll probably think twice about posting on Facebook after watching this just-released trailer for Disconnect.
Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgard star in the thriller about the dangers of life in the digital age. From cyberbullying to identity theft, catfishing to illegal online romances, technology has given birth to a whole new slew of problems that each character faces in Disconnect with dire (and sometimes deadly) consequences.
This is director Henry Alex Rubin’s first narrative feature with a script by Andrew Stern. Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Monroe, and William Horberg produced the film, which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival. Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, and Andrea Riseborough also star.
Watch the dark trailer below and hit the comments with your thoughts:
Disconnect opens in limited release on April 12.
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I feel bad for television creators. With a new show, a creator has to devise away to immediately suck audiences in while planting the seeds for something that can grow over years. Audiences look for instant gratification and a promise that if they stick with it, they'll be even more satisfied.
Thursday night's premiere of ABC's Zero Hour is a reminder that TV writing is the Mt. Everest of creativity. The large-scale thriller — which intertwines alternative history, global mysteries, terrorist espionage, and a heck of a lot of clock talk into a tapestry of intrigue — kicked off with more of a plop than a bang, introducing a boatload of ideas without too much concern of characters, style, or logic. The pilot didn't match the mind-blowing first episode of LOST (what could?), but it wasn't on par with something like the silly-yet-curious Flashforward opener either. Zero Hour suffered from that quintessential TV paradox: it made a lot of promises while failing to be entertaining on its own right.
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If Hank Galliston's (played by Anthony Edwards) search for his missing wife, the collection of Bavarian clocks containing diamond treasure maps, and the truth behind "New Bartholomew" — a new apostle of Christ who looks a lot like Hank and was murdered in a submarine sometime around Word War II — is going to engage audiences after the pilot, Zero Hour is going to have to do a bit of tweaking. The hour-long adventure shows promise. Whether it can figure itself out before ABC cancels it the greatest mystery of all. Here are five things that could use some touching up:
1. Make Hank Galliston a Human Being
If the pilot script for Zero Hour isn't forcing Edwards to deliver long-winded rundowns of history, it's asking him to act like a buffoon who takes matters into his own hands. There isn't much of an introduction to Hank before Zero Hour is set into motion: he loves his wife, he runs Modern Skeptic magazine, and he's doesn't take BS from anyone. When his wife, Laila (Jacinda Barrett), is kidnapped, he immediately springs into action. Screw the FBI, even though they want to help — Hank's an independent guy and he knows there are greater mysteries afoot. Most of the Zero Hour pilot is dedicated to Hank accidentally stumbling upon clues that will lead him to the show's bigger throughline, mainly a set of clocks that were built to protect the world from the Antichrist. But the only way I'm going to enjoy going on this adventure is if Hank turns into a guy who acts with rational behavior. Right now he's a bitter version of Robert Langdon from Da Vinci Code.
2. Beef Up the Bad Guys
Nazis, a terrorist sitting at the top of every Wanted list, and potentially an otherworldly beast bent on destroying the world. Those are villains fitting of a show that treks across the world, but eventually, Zero Hour needs to find a connection between Hank and Michael Nyqvist's White Vincent. "This time, it's personal" is a chuckle-worthy tagline that's also the foundation of every great cat and mouse game. Even though Vincent has Hank's wife — and we even see him stick a gun to her head! — the stakes of Zero Hour are incredibly low. We aren't privy to why Nyqvist is chasing the mysterious set of WWII clocks, just that if he gets them all the world is at stake. Not revealing everything is part of the groundwork, but it's the kind of diabolical plan that works in a two hour movie and not over the course of a TV series. We need to know what the hell Vincent is all about as soon as possible if his actions are to carry any weight.
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3. Bring Back Charles Dutton!
For some reason, Charles Dutton appears in the pilot of Zero Houras a know-it-all priest who is nearly murdered by Vincent. We're told he's OK… but he better be. Dutton adds much needed gravitas to the show. His role is absolutely ridiculous – yes, of course I can translate this dead language for you! — but delivery is everything. If someone has to point Hank and his team every time they hit a road block, it should be someone with the sage-like whispers of Dutton.
4. Go Smaller
It's apparent that Zero Hour is ABC's attempt to deliver the cinematic experience of National Treasure adventures to the small screen. In the pilot, Hank and his Modern Skeptic crew Germany and Canada, with hints that they'll be tracking clocks, built by Christian mythic the Rosicruciates, all over the world. But the show could stand to narrow its vision, as every new location forces the writers to conjure up reasons for why the action should be taking place there. This was the appeal of X-Files for me: they travel the U.S., but each location feels lived in and distinct, with Mulder and Scully attempting to conduct by-the-book business wherever they would end up. The race against time nature of Zero Hour doesn't lend itself to procedurel blueprints, but finding a way to keep the action contained and feel like a mystery would only up the drama.
5. Stop Saying Clocks.
Yes, clocks are everywhere in Zero Hour, a seemingly perfect metaphor for the many countdowns in Hank's life. But the pilot script for Zero Hour abuses the word. Every other sentence is "clocks this!" and "clocks that!" It speaks to a bigger problem: Zero Hour can't sustain itself on revelations every ten minutes, especially when the revelations feel forced. Build up is necessary to pull off a shocking moment, not just the entire cast gasping simultaneously while music swells. Zero Hour is relentless. First Hank discovers the clock (DUN DUN!), then he discovers a diamond in the clock (DUN DUN DUN!), then he discovers the diamond contains a map inside of it (DUN DUN DUN DUN!). As I watched, I didn't know why any of it was important.
That's what will make or break Zero Hour: investment. Can they take their time crafting a story that earns its revelations of will they shotgun them out every week, trigger that part of our brain that just needs to know the answers so it can rest easy. The first option sounds entertaining. The latter sounds exhausting.
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This Thursday at 10 P.M., ABC will unleash it's latest high-concept adventure show, Zero Hour (or ZERØ HØUR as the logo suggests).
Unlike the pilot to some of the great, long-lasting mystery shows — even procedurals like the X-Files — Zero Hour goes all in on its premise, forsaking interesting characters in favor of its overarching conceit. How are Nazis, clocks, international terrorists, clocks, treasure maps, clocks, the Anti-christ, and clocks connected? That is Zero Hour's question to solve over its series run. Thankfully, it has a solid cast doing the exposition dictating, and your enjoyment of the show may depend on how much you love them.
Here's what you need to know before tonight's big premiere:
Actors you'll know: Anthony Edwards of ER leads the cast. If you are wondering what the heck the actor has been doing since his days at County General Hospital… well, lay off! Edwards starred in 180 episodes of the medical drama. The guy needed a vacation.
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Joining the TV vet is Scott Michael Foster of Greek, Carmen Ejogo of Kidnapped, and Michael Nyqvist, the baddie from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Charles Dutton also appears in the pilot, but it's unclear whether or not he'll be involved later in the series.
3 Reasons You Might Want to Watch: You're a "secret history" buff struggling without any new Da Vinci Code books to quell the hunger. You think Antiques Roadshow was in need of some "edge." You're that guy who doesn't want Anthony Edwards to enjoy his vacation time.
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5 Reasons You Might NOT Want to Watch: You can't take goofy establishing details seriously, i.e. Edwards' character Hank Galliston is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Modern Skeptic, making him the only person capable of being caught up in the global mystery he finds himself in. There's only so much "OH!" face you can take, especially when it's provoked by minor revelations that a show deems important. You have a fear of the FBI and their ability to watch your every move (THEY'RE WATCHING YOU RIGHT NOW). You have sweet, preserved memories of Edwards' brilliant work on ER. You suffer from Chronomentrophobia.
Love it, or Leave it? Love it if you can stomach a weekly airport novel, good for dangling a plot carrot that will have you coming back to each episode just to figure out what the heck happened the previous week. Leave it if the mere mention of National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets makes you want to take a nap.
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Hopefully by now your DVRs have recovered from all the use they got during the whirlwind of May finales, so now all that's left to do is sit back, and wait for fall (because, let's face it, summer TV shows really just can't compare). And while the next few months are sure to be somewhat grueling, dedicated TV junkies can take comfort in knowing we don't have to completely go cold turkey.
The big networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and CW) have graciously released several trailers for upcoming pilots, giving viewers a taste of what's to come next fall. So just in case you missed a few during the Upfronts craze a few weeks back, Hollywood.com has provided a variety of must-see clips from the various networks to help determine which shows you plan on tuning in for when fall premiere season comes around. So without further ado...
ABC
Nashville
The series is an upcoming American musical drama, starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere, who play two country singers looking to pursue their dreams in the music business.
Last Resort
The show follows the story of the crew of a rogue nuclear submarine and features an all-star cast that includes Andre Braugher, Bruce Davison, The OC's Autumn Reeser and Felicity's Scott Speedman.
666 Park Avenue
This show looks to be a supernatural freakout that stars Lost alum Terry O'Quinn and Vanessa Williams as a devilish married couple.
Next: More ABC Fall Pilots.
ABC
Malibu Country
The half-hour show will center on Reba McEntire's character, who moves from Nashville to Malibu, Calif. in an attempt to resurrect her music career, after discovering her rock-star husband was cheating on her.
The Neighbors
In hopes of providing a better life for his wife and three kids, Marty (played by Lenny Venito) move out to a New Jersey gated community called Hidden Hills, where they realize that their neighbors are...well...a little different.
How to Life with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)
In case you couldn't tell by the title alone, this new comedy stars Sarah Chalke as a single mom who moves back in with mom and dad...possibly forever.
Family Tools
This show will follow the story of Jack Shea (Kyle Bornheimer) who puts his own dreams on hold in order to take over his family's handyman business from his father.
Red Widow
The series stars Radha Mitchell as Marta Walraven, a housewife from Northern California, who must continue her deceased husband's work in organized crime in order to protect her family.
Zero Hour
This show will revolve around White Vincent (Michael Nyqvist), the editor of a skeptics magazine, as he's pulled into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history.
Mistresses
Love has never been so complicated...
[Image: ABC]
Next: NBC Fall Pilots.
NBC
The New Normal
Ryan Murphy serves up a brand new comedy that centers around two gay dads and a baby mama. Oh yeah, this one's a must-see.
Go On
Matthew Perry will star as a cheeky sportscaster who tries to move on from loss and finds comfort from the members of his mandatory group-therapy sessions. Could we BE anymore excited?
Animal Practice
Justin Kirk stars as Dr. George Coleman, an animal-loving veterinarian who despises the pet owners.
Revolution
The series picks up 15 years after the world loses all different forms of electricity (TVs, phones, lights, planes, what have you) and shows you how humans have adjusted. But the big question still remains: why did this happen?
Guys With Kids
This show, created by Jimmy Fallon, stars Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford, Zach Cregger as three thirty-something-year-old men who must deal with being fathers despite having not grown-up yet themselves.
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Next: CBS Fall Pilots.
CBS
Vegas
This show is a period drama which takes place in the 1960s and is based on the true story of Ralph Lamb — a rodeo cowboy-turned-longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas. Giddy-up!
Partners
The series follows the story of two best friends, Charlie (David Krumholtz) and Louis (Michael Urie), whose friendship seems to reflect that of a weird married couple. Plus, it comes from the creators of Will &amp; Grace.
Made In Jersey
Starring Janet Montgomery, this legal drama centers around a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her colleagues at a top New York law firm.
Elementary
This show is a contemporary take on Sherlock Holmes (played by Jonny Lee Miller) and his partner Watson, who's now a lady and played by Lucy Liu.
[Image: CBS]
Next: FOX Fall Pilots.
FOX
The Mob Doctor
Former My Boys star Jordana Spiro is heading back to Chicago for this mob drama as a young thoracic surgeon who’s forced to juggle her career and her life-long debt to the South Chicago mob.
The Following
Kevin Bacon stars as an ex-FBI agent, Ryan Hardy, who’s hot on the trail of a master serial killer (James Purefoy), who has created a cult of serial killers which must also be stopped.
The Mindy Kaling Project
This show stars Mindy Kaling as an unlucky-in-love doctor, dealing with the daily work-life balance. It's probably no Office, but it might just be the next best thing.
Ben &amp; Kate
The story mostly focuses on the relationship between two siblings: Ben (Nat Faxon) and Kate (Dakota Johnson), who happen to be polar opposites (think freewheeling brother meets uptight sister).
The Goodwin Games
The comedy stars Becki Newton (of Ugly Betty fame) and Scott Foley (of Felicity) as a brother and sister whose father left his fortune to them under some (presumably) steep terms.
[Image: FOX]
Next: CW Fall Pilots.
CW
The Carrie Diaries
AnnaSophia Robb will star as New York's most popular fictional style-icon, Carrie Bradshaw, who struggles with everyday teenage life in Connecticut -- until she meets her "first love", Manhattan.
Arrow
Stephen Amell stars as Oliver Queen, who is just your average, everyday billionaire playboy until he survives a violent shipwreck and re-emerges as The Green Arrow.
Beauty and the Beast
This will be a contemporary reboot of the 1980s series, starring Smallville's Kristin Kreuck as Detective Catherine Chandler, and Jay Ryan as Vincent — a presumed-dead doctor who gets a little beastly when he's mad.
Cult
Former Vampire Diaries star Matt Davis will play an investigative reporter Jeff Sefton, who goes from a no-nonsense blogger to a full-out investigator when his brother mysteriously goes missing.
First Cut
Mamie Gummer (you've probably heard of her mother, Meryl Streep) will star as Emily Barnes, a fresh out of med school intern at Denver Memorial Hospital, who soon learns that hospital life is remarkably similar to high school — where she was a certified nerd.
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Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible franchise is a rare phenomenon. Few film series based on properties as old as it is have retained such relevance in the modern movie market and few take as long a break in between installments making each new entry a highly anticipated event. Such is the case with Ghost Protocol the fourth in fifteen years starring Tom Cruise as super-agent Ethan Hunt. Adding to the hoopla surrounding the holiday release is the fact that it marks the live-action directorial debut of Brad Bird the Pixar wunderkind responsible for Oscar-winning hits The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Unfortunately I feel that the animation auteur had too much to prove in his first physical outing and tried a bit too hard to thrill resulting in a film that plays more like John Woo’s over-the-top M:I:II than Brian de Palma’s suspenseful original.
The plot essentially kicks off when a bomb blasts a hole the size of a football field in the Kremlin (Russia’s most important government facility) while Hunt and his team of IMF agents (Paula Patton and Simon Pegg) attempt to extract a nuclear detonation device from the fortress before a mysterious figure known only as Cobalt can get to it first. The problem: Cobalt has gotten to it first and frames Hunt and company for the bombing causing the U.S. President to enact "Ghost Protocol " which disbands the IMF and disavows its soldiers. Knowing that the theft of the device and a batch of codes that enable it to be used prior to this event means that Cobalt surely intends to start World War III the agents go rogue to retrieve the components and bring the terrorist to justice.
Like the fore mentioned bomb blast Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec’s script is devastating leaving scattered pieces of information all over the place and making it hard for the story to truly find its footing. Expository plot points are dropped in way after they’re needed or wanted messing with the pace of the movie on more than one occasion. Perhaps their biggest crime is crafting a lame villain with little presence in the picture. After the intensity that Phillip Seymour Hoffman brought to his antagonist in M:I:III Michael Nyqvist’s quiet and composed Hendricks just isn’t convincing enough as a true threat. On the other hand Bird’s direction is anything but composed.
While his use of IMAX cameras is quite breathtaking when filming the much-publicized Burj Khalifa climb and other notable set pieces as stated before his approach to the material seemed to be “let’s make every action sequence as ludicrous as we can.” I realize that MIGP is a holiday blockbuster designed to get audiences blood pumping but I’ve always found that action films work best when they operate (mostly) within the confines of reality. That’s clearly not the case here where Hunt drives perfectly through a blinding sandstorm without causing much collateral damage and nosedives a Volkswagen off of a 30-foot drop and lives to save the day.
Still it’s all in the name of fun and he does manage to create an entertaining dynamic between his IMF agents. Patton is totally passable as Jane Carter an agent seeking revenge for the murder of her cohort and apparent beau Hanaway (Josh Holloway) while Pegg returning as Benji the tech-geek from the preceding film has been promoted to field agent and is without question the movie’s saving grace. Though his comic relief is relied heavily upon it’s absolutely welcomed. The biggest surprise is Jeremy Renner who was supposedly brought in to take the reigns of the franchise but is pretty stale as Brandt. He never elevates his character to the level of coolness that Cruise has maintained throughout the years and doesn’t provide anything significant other than assistance. Given the talent that we all know he possesses his negligible contribution was a bigger let down than the film itself.

Summary

Primarily known to American audiences for playing the plucky investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the film adaptations of author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy" crime novels, Michael Nyqvist was already a huge star in Sweden prior to achieving international acclaim in the States. After landing numerous small roles in Swedish television shows throughout the '90s, Nyqvist drew praise for his role as detective John Banck on the popular crime series, "Beck" (1997- ). His sterling performance on the series soon led to meatier film roles, including a breakout performance in the 2000 Swedish drama, "Together." The film was a hit in Sweden, but it would be another four years before Nyqvist's acting work would reach acclaim on a worldwide scale. That came in 2004 when he portrayed a chronically ill conductor in "As It Is In Heaven." The Academy Award-nominated film thrust Nyqvist into the international spotlight, and over the next several years he continued to expand his fan base in America with riveting performances in such big budget action thrillers as "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" and "Abduction" - both of which were released in 2011.

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Took his first acting classes in Omaha, Nebraska, while living in America as a foreign exchange student

"What’s challenging for me as an actor is to find things that I have a lack of understanding about in my own life but I begin to make more sense of it as I work through the character." - from Blog.FilmWax.com, May 21, 2011

"The American movie industry is like a dream factory, and very different to the European style. American movies explain how life should be whereas European movies try to explain life." - from Vancouver Observer, January 28, 2011